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This summer I spent a week in the Netherlands with my family.I only took with me my Talon UL since I could not load my luggage much more. So I decided to take the one that I thought could give me more chances of flying.In the end I had very little time for flying since we did so many things and visited so many places of the beautiful country.

I only got the chance of flying one day at a beach we visited in Bloemendaal aan zee: http://goo.gl/maps/HEbsNUnfortunately the wind was so strong I could barely control the kite.I was really scared of breaking the Talon UL but I just could not miss the opportunity

So I was metaphorically flying on the edge of the kite and literally on the edge of the window to try to have the least wind possible!

Here's the short video where I was mostly trying slots. Funny how the wind makes the kite perform the slot moving backwards!

After about 30 minutes of flying a police car came up to me and told me that there was a special area of the beach for kite flying. That I should move North 200m.I thought that was an amazing thing. Beaches with specially defined areas for flying kites!That is indeed a civilized and organized country!

At that point I was already so tired I just packed away but I really had some nice fun and can now say I have flown in the Netherlands

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